prisoner of war in English

noun
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a person who has been captured and imprisoned by the enemy in war.
It's the same belt buckle he wore on his uniform during the time he was a prisoner of war during World War II.
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1. He might be a prisoner of war.

2. If you wanna play a prisoner of war, fine.

3. His comrades perish , and Alfie becomes a German prisoner of war.

4. Father joined the German army and died as a prisoner of war.

5. The prisoner of war gave his parole not to try to escape.

6. He died as a prisoner of war in an enemy death camp.

7. Her father spent three years as a prisoner of war in Korea. Sentencedict.com

8. His experiences as a prisoner of war have left him marked for life.

9. What would be grotesquely abnormal became my normality in the prisoner of war camps.

10. He was shot down that day and was a prisoner of war until January 1973.

11. His voice was dry as he told of his time as a prisoner of war.

12. McCain spent five and a half years in a prisoner of war camp in Vietnam.

13. He was detained as a prisoner of war, and later taken to the United States.

14. My grandfather was a prisoner of war of the U. S. Army for 26 years.

15. He was a prisoner of war for five years, but his courage saw him through.

16. He escaped from his prisoner-of-war camp later that year and joined the French Resistance.

17. When he had killed the guard, the prisoner of war quickly dragged him into the bushes.

18. He was seized on January and by February 6 was in Moscow as a prisoner of war.

19. Held in prisoner-of-war camps, some of the men were later reunited with their relocated families.

20. Bergen-Belsen was initially established in May 1940 as a prisoner of war camp, named Stalag 311

21. Bergen-Belsen, about 40 miles north of Hanover, was established as a prisoner-of-war camp in 1940

22. When Eisenhower took office in January 19 the truce talks were stalled on the question of prisoner-of-war repatriation.

23. On the 150th anniversary of the death of Andersonville’s first prisoner of war, look back at the notorious Confederate prison camp

24. The Lakota are one of many tribes that were moved off their land to prisoner- of- war camps, now called reservations.

25. He found it hard to describe to me the abominable way in which he was treated in a prisoner of war camp.

26. The Russian abacus was brought to France around 1820 by the mathematician Jean-Victor Poncelet, who served in Napoleon's army and had been a prisoner of war in Russia.

27. The Andersonville prisoner of war camp, which operated from February 27, 1864, until the end of the American Civil War in 1865, was one of the most notorious in U.S

28. As a result of the 1989 invasion of Panama by the United States, Manuel Noriega was removed from power, captured, detained as a prisoner of war, and flown to the United States.

29. It is also mentioned by Plutarch that the Parthians found the Roman prisoner of war that resembled Crassus the most, dressed him as a woman and paraded him through Parthia for all to see.

30. Is it not remarkable that you can sit down and write a letter to someone on the other side of the planet, with reasonable expectation that your letter will reach the addressee, even if he or she is a prisoner of war or a civilian internee?